On Privacy

“Cappello cuts through the noise and confusion and enumerates in short, sensible steps the necessary safeguards we need to adopt to be secure in the digital age. He offers practical insights into why privacy matters, how it shapes free societies, and how it rules our lives in an increasingly interconnected electronic world.”–O.Henry Magazine“A lucid, concise primer on what privacy is, why it’s so important, and what you can do to protect it in the digital age. On Privacy is indispensable.”–James Oakes, American Historian and two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize

Lawrence Cappello is the author of None of Your Damn Business: Privacy in the United States from the Gilded Age to the Digital Age (University of Chicago Press). He is an award-winning professor of U.S. legal & constitutional history and a certified information privacy professional (CIPP/US & CIPM). His talks and consultations include the US State Department, the US Senate, the NFL, and leading tech and cryptocurrency companies. His work on the right to privacy has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Nation, The Hill, Motherboard, and The Washington Times.